1998 video investigation & cleanup of Stockton Harbor's Kidder Point waste & pollution sites. Index and video
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PART 1. 52min 32sec February 20 1998 investigation of wastefilled shore and intertidal mud 55 Minutes Penobscot Bay Watch site investigation. Will Neils, videographer. NOTE: Part 1 starts after 53 seconds of blank
PART 2 1hr 20min April 7m, 1998 We discover waste problems in an outfall and a nearby seawater intake out take pipeline bldg. DEP orders Clean Harbors to clean it up We witness that and chat wiith various officials
PART 1
START AT 53sec Driving to Searsport
55sec Panorama show of Stockton Harbor - no condos on Cape Jellison.
2:18 More panoramas of the facility One notes the large wooden quonset structures
2:52 Closer in to old acid and superphosphate plant
4:00 Layered filled area near base of point on east side. Notes how far along bank the wooden fill corrals extend (all the way to in front of the acid plant)
4:55 closer up up water dripping against exposed fill
5:50 Closeup of another nearby dripping waste slump.
6:50 Eroding slope below the acid plant itself.
7:32 Slope
8:11 osprey...Flats at the tip of the point. Old wooden superphosphate plant quonset
9:41 outfall piles
10:17 view to abandoned pumphouse outfall & oily sump. Aerial photos of illegal discharge
11:33 closeup of old superphosphate wooden plant. Elevated insulated pipelines from offshore point
12:30 Wooden chimney structure. Scan of the wooden structure then to shore below with artificial filled shoreline
13:22 Closeup eroding pipeline to old pumphouse, then filled shoreline from there to cistern full of oily waste. We go and examine it.
14:01 Cistern waterfilled. See top of outfall pipe into the cistern. Probe cistern catch basin: full of oily goo.
15:53 Old electric junk including transformer View out to rail line with landfill beyond track Scan around back of existing working plant and to old superphosphate plant
17:00 scan superphosphate plant
17:20 Approach old pumphouse
17:55 Down stairs to floor with hatches to bay Examine hatches and outfall pipes
19:19 Examine oil spigot allowing oil to be discharged into bay .
20:51 Climb out of pumphouse
21:46. Examine a test well near abandoned superphosphate plant
22:51 Observe gust of black smoke from a facility
23: 10 View from the GAC landfill
24:13 View from top of landfill
25:44 Sulfuric acid tank warnings
26:25 Railside acid warnings. walk toward acid plant and superphosphate plant.
PART 2 March 5. TIDAL FLATS adjacent to Kidder's Point
27:55 March 5th GAC tidal flats exploration
28:07 Herb Hoche digs test squares, Dead clams
29:03 Ron discusses clam mystery with Stockton Harbor background
30:29 Herb Hoche digs another site
32:45 Another dig
35:18 Another dig
38:35 Another sample "much closer to the plant"
39:44 Hoche discovers buried tarpaper from roof of old wooden factory
43:37 Another dig. 4527 "Our braintrust goes to work." observes Will Neils.
45:54 Another dig 4944 note dig is in flow of waste
50:21 Examining discolored mud, with flocculants on top. Hoche digs, reveals multicolored layers of intertidal mud. The adjoining shore where a broad reddish band of leachate is seeping along a layer of clay downslope to upwell there the intertidal gravel and sand meet the mudflats .. Hoche dabs the flocculants at several places along the red leachate
52:40 Hoche clamdigging in the discolored area Red layer, then an alum silver layer. then another red Examine the mud there for signs of life; none.
54:05 Closeup of contaminated mud
54:20 Camera investigates the land adjacent to the acid plant
54:53 Top of ditch running tainted water to the har4bor
Part 3
56:24 At the old pumphouse again. The Cleanup crew is there at work on cistern
58:28 Ron sums up situation
59:40 Hoche examines seaweed in driftwood
60:03 Cleanup workers. Viewed from the beach - private property rights. Pans down to brook adjacent to site. Herb Hoche rinses hands in the stream.
63:00 DEP staffer Clarissa Trasko brings straw to below cistern Goes uphill returns below discusses plan The big suction hose. more A DEP oilspill guy shows up we chat a bit.
71:30 Ron chats with DEP official Clarissa Trasko at base of cistern.
76:00 2 Coast Guardsmen arrive discusses issue with Ron Huber He thanks them for convincing the company to clean this up talk ends at 83min
83:00 Suction hose underway
87:00 Officials congregate to watch from front of cistern
88:00 Suction starts up again.
88:38 Surface water removed by suction revealing the massive amount of oily goo there.
1:29:50 cleanup guy gets suitedup.
1:31 cleanup guy continues
1:32 test samples collected, snuck away by company official
1:33 View into cistern
1:35:45 View of cistern with cleaner guy inside
1:36 See outfall choked with waste
1:36:50 Guy in protective suit in front end of cistern
1:42:10 See old junk boards that were burried in the muck. he scrapes muck off them
1:47 Protective suit climbs out. A lengthy cleaning process for suit removal finally removes his bootcovers, bags it all up and leaves
1:53 Inside of outfall half full
1:54 Huber reviews the situation
PART 4
1:55:13 BACK TO PUMPHOUSE
1:56 Funky water alongside rail line.
1:58:40 along rail line
2:00 Return to cleaned up cistern new wooden front, sheeny water...
2:02 Huber grabs muck sample
2:03:55 brook that goes to bay near the cistern b probed with a stick
2:04:40 Approach pumphouse
2:05:30 Oil dump barrel is gone. Floor cleaned up. The oily glove still there.
2:08 Old lagoon alongside rail line
2:09 Panorama shot
2:11 Clean Harbors pumptruck
2:11:51 Steam cranes at Searsport Clean Harbors is there, too
END
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